WINNER OF THE 2010 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT

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Soccer Dribbling - The Move That Made Leo Messi Famous

There's no question to every body that loves football (soocer), loves to see a world class dribbler. The player that can run past defenders with ease. They set the crowd a light, the fans want to see them, young player want to be them. Every player wants to know their secret, the simple tricks is hard work, dedication and sacrifices. During your football training (soccer training) either individually or as a team you must try to get as many touches on the ball as possible. There are a vast a ray tricks and dummies world class players use to beat there opponents, but the truth is that you really only need to master a couple to be an effective dribbler. Look at Leo Messi consistently goes past defenders like they were standing still, the weird thing about Messi is that defenders know what his going to do but they still can't stop it. Why because his perfected and worked hard to hone his technique.

The Body Swerve

An all time favorite of Messi. You start by dribbling at slow to moderate pace toward a defender, then feint both with body and feet to take the ball one way. You drop your shoulder, leaning to take the ball right or left, then quickly changing direction and accelerating away from the defender.

You should first practice during your soccer training sessions by your dribbling toward another ball, cone or leaf it doesn't matter. perform the move slowly, and as you start to feel more comfortable start to increase the speed, while also keeping an eye on making sure that you will put the defender off balance by your feint. The quicker running pace you can perform this move effectively the more you will have the defender on his heels making it easier to put him or her off balance. The next key step is the acceleration away from the defender, you don't want to be repeatedly beating the same defender, thats why acceleration after you beat the defender is so crucial. You must learn to perform this move with both feet, this will make unpredictable to defenders.

It's important that you continue to hone and maintain your skills, during your soccer training. Never become complacent, always strive to be better, thats why players like Messi are the best in world, because the worked harder and smarter then anyone else to be the best. The more you put into your soccer training the more you will get out of it.

The Japanese Are Coming!

When you watched Bass Tournament Fishing 30 years ago who would ever thought you would see someone from Japan doing good? You see pros from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Canada, Mexico and Japan. I mean who even knew they fished for bass?

Well now, you see some of the best anglers from Japan and they are doing great!

A couple of names comes to mind like: Takahiro Omori and Morizo Shimizu.

Why are these two doing so good lately and what is their secrets? Well, for one they fish mostly high pressured lakes and second, they know what the fish are striking on and feel more comfortable when fishing on lakes that are less pressured like here in the United States.

Just look at Omori, this 34 year old has 5 1st place finishes and 4 second place finishes. He has 22 top ten finishes, 34 top 20 finishes and 56 top 50 finishes. That's good in anyone's book. He has caught over 2,943 lbs pounds of fish in just 146 entries. His career earning are over $800,000.00 and that my friend, is over $5400.00 for every tournament he has been in. Recently he was name "Citgo Angler of The Year".

Then we have Morizo Shimizu, who caught 30 pounds of bass his last day at Lake Guntersville. Morizo is from Suita Osaka, Japan and is 34 years old too. We are going to be seeing a lot more of this man, I am sure. Morizo came in second at Lake Gunterville by 1 pound of fish.

Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy - Avoid Coin-Flip Hands

A good Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy will stress the important of avoiding coin-flip hands but this point is even more important early on in the tournament. Later in the game, at the money tables or last table sometimes you are required to take the punt but a lot of players generally have difficulty getting this far in the tournament. Avoiding coin-flip hands early on can be a critical factor in ensuring you stay alive long enough to take home some cash.

Early in the tournament, don't play coin-flip hands for all your money. Incase you don't know, a coin-flip hand is a hand where the odds depict you and your partner both have a fairly even chance of winning. So its about 50-50, the odds of flipping a coin and guessing heads or tails. A classic example of this is when one play has two overcards, like K-Q and the other player has an under paid, like J-J. So with these hands both players have essentially about the same chance to win. In this example if you had the pair of jacks you are favoured to win but its not by much. I definitely wouldn't want my future in the tournament falling in the hands of odds like this. The major issue with situations like this, in tournaments, is that if you lose you've lost. You're out of the tournament and you can't get back in. This is the biggest thing you want to avoid.

If you win a coin-flip hand then you get to double up - that is you get all the other persons chips and double your stack in one hand. This is a great benefit to your underlying Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy because having more chips means you have more power and a better chance of winning. However, the effect of losing the coin-flip hand, again, you losing and being out of the tournament, is a risk that I would not want to be taking, no matter how juicy the reward. The thing is, doubling up early on in a tournament doesn't really mean that much, there is still a long long way to go before your at the end. Doubling up later in the tournament is hugely advantageous.

So, if whatever Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy you have is ever going to work, you need to actually be in the tournament to implement it. Playing coin-flip hands could jeopardise you existence in the tournaments and this is why I refrain from playing them early on. Although the benefits of winning one can be doubling up your chips this still isn't worth the risk in my books. The next time your in a poker tournament think twice before you go through with a coin-flip hand. You just might find that the coin doesn't land on your side.

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Everybody's Media

Here's a bit of commentary on our highly-networked social media world:

In an interview leading up to this weekend's golf tournament, this year's Masters' champion Phil Mickelson was asked about a Krispy Kreme incident that happened on Monday after winning the coveted green jacket. Phil pulled up to the drive-thru window in his Masters' jacket ("it was kinda chilly out, so I just grabbed a jacket..."). Phil was fulfilling a promise to his kids that he would get the sugary donut treats once the tournament was over. The woman working the drive-thru that morning recognized him, snapped a picture on her cell phone, and posted it online.

Phil's comment was that it was just another reminder that "everybody's media."

How true. Anyone with a cell phone and a computer can now report the goings-on of anyone else.

To me, there are several lessons in this.

1. Always be your best self because you never know who is watching or listening or reporting. For those who were required to read George Orwell's 1984 in their high school English class, concerns that "Big Brother is watching" were tied to big government and was seen as totally un-American and the ultimate invasion of privacy. Now, of course, we actually have "Big Brother" reality shows and YouTube, where it is not the government who seems to be watching but everyone else. Whenever I counsel people on social media, my biggest caution is, "Don't put anything up on Facebook that you wouldn't want to appear as the front headline of the newspaper." Your boss (or potential future boss) is actually watching, despite what you might think.

2. Be respectful of others. The media has laws and codes of ethics to follow as it relates to public figures, and John Q. Public, Reporter-at-Large, needs to honors those same codes. For celebrities and non-celebrities alike, at the very least, the Golden Rule should apply. They may all be new tools, but the same basic principles of human decency still apply.

3. Yesterday is gone. There's a whole new world of power out there. Use this power for good, not evil. Yes, "everybody's media," and that has given rise to a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs, empowered consumers who want to engage with their favorite brands, and given marketers a whole new slew of venues for communicating with their target audience.

Phil Mickelson Very Unlucky Putt at the 2010 Masters_HQ

phil mickelson goes to sink a birdie putt but a piece of debris falls from the sky and incredibly enough falls right in his putting line

3 Very Famous Chess Games

Perhaps the most famous game ever played was termed the Opera House Massacre by the first great American chess player, Paul Morphy. Paul was an avid fan of opera and was attending The Barber of Seville on the invitation of the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isourard. During the opera, The Duke and Count challenged the Paul to a game. Not wishing to be rude, Paul reluctantly accepted. The Duke and Count both knew of Paul's weakness to opera and conspired to seat him so that his back was to the stage. The Duke and Count thought that Paul would play rashly to quickly finish the game. They were right on this note. Paul played one of the most perfect games of chess using all pieces and sacrifices to quickly annihilate his challengers.

The Immortal Queen was a game played by Jaques Mieses in 1900. In this game, Jaques left his white Queen under direct attack for 6 complete moves. During each turn, Black was not able to take the Queen as she was protected by a passed pawn. The move also pinned both blacks rooks during all 6 moves, putting black at significant disadvantage. This game is a brilliant example of the flamboyant use of a Queen and a passed pawn.

Most of us have heard of the great chess player Bobby Fischer. Bobby started playing chess at a very young age and played a game called The Game of The Century at age 13. This game has since been studied as an example of a near perfect and extremely brilliant game of chess. At the ripe old age of 14, Bobby played in eight US Chess Championships, winning each one. At the age of 15, Bobby became the youngest ever Chess Grand Master. Aged 20, Bobby became the 11th World Chess champion, winning 11-0, the first and only perfect score. At age 32, Bobby gave up playing tournament chess and became extremely reclusive.